Maybe I'm weird, but the thought of watching someone's soul become prematurely liberated from its corporeal bindings isn't my idea of a good time. Can somone please explain to me this fascination people have with death? An ex-friend (no longer friends but not because of this) once told me she was dying to find this website that featured photos and a video of a man being murdered. I asked her why she wanted to see it so bad....she started to go on about how someone slit this guys throat. I asked her again what was so great about seeing it. She got quite.....and started to mumble something about how once you've seen someone die you feel empty inside. I decided not to press my question any longer. But I still want an answer. So can someone PLEASE tell me what's so great about watching someone die?

Why do people pay to see slasher flicks, why do people pay to see war movies? Is there a difference between real and fake? People thrive on death....

Slasher flicks rule...
They provide people with a feeling of security in an insecure world. (By showing events more terrible than what they experience in daily life.)
I don't understand the fascination with seeing people die in reality; but I can support war films, horror flicks, and etc...

the film entitled 'snuff' was banned because of the 'real' nature of it graphic murder/rape scenes.

thus snuff movies appeared on the black market, these being films of a real rape/real torture/real murder content, which of course has increased the number of people wanting to see such attrocoties.

these people are SICK!

they need help, the problem being that to watch this filth they see fit for another human to die for their entertainment, why dont they just slit their own throats in front of a mirror, and leave the rest of decent society to live in a world without such individuals roaming the earth!

one of the major problems with this industry is the fact that many of the victims shown have been sold from either families with no money or from slave peddlers! purely for the entertainment value of being raped/tortured then murdered. most of the other victims are kidnap victims who are never seen again!

i think people need to put themselves in the victims shoes and see if they would love to be the 'star' of the movie.

one of the main portions of funding which goes into these films comes from illegal videos/dvds/cds, not the ones your pal copies u, but the black market copies.

the next time u think about buying a cheap, illegal verison, just think, next time the star of the show could be you!

my final point is quentin tarrentino, and his particular brand of directing!

what is the need for such violence? its verging on snuff! although we know the actors in the films are actors, he seems to have taken violence to a new level of reality, why do we need to witness such sick deviant behaviour, i have heard of people watching kill bill and being shocked and sickened by the violence, because it is uneccesary and too intense.

the man is not a genious, he is only seeing how far he can go before someone says enough, he has admitted that the only reason he does it is to be contriversial, whats the point in that, anyone can be contriversial, its more impressive to be original!

if people want to watch sex acts as strong as that of a tarrentino nature, you have to buy porn, so why is he allowed to currupt the nation by being screened nationally.

as thedemonof69 said 'whats so great about watching someone die?'

the answer is NOTHING

its far more impressive to watch someone live!

I think that people have always been fascinated by death...I don't think fascinated is really the right word, but you get the idea.

We are all going to die at some time, and that scares everyone at some point in their lives. What is it like? What happens? Who is right? Does it matter? There is so much uncertainty in the matter.

Does seeing someone die change you life? you bet it does. Mortality is hard to grasp when you are young, seeing it in action gives you a perspective that many people don't understand yet. It is one thing to hear or read about someone dieing, it is altogether different to witness it firsthand.

I was an Army medic, and have seen my share of people die. It changed me, that is for sure.

There are very disturbing things on the internet. Why kids have free access to the internet is beyond me, it is so bad for young people to see things before they are mature enough to cope with what they see. I wish I hadn't seen what I did when I was in the Army.

I admit, I am facinated by death (though as fluffybunny put it, not the right word), but I don't make a point of watching it. Maybe I'd like to hear about how someone died, but watching it is just wrong in my opinion. I know I have seen people die because of very disturbing incidents, but I really did not wish to see that.

What if u watched a death scene that you thought was staged, you laughed at this, then later discovered it to be real. Would this change your opinion/could you change an emotion after the event?

People like to be scared/ shocked apparently it sends adrenaline and endorphines through your system creating a good feeling.

I was a Hospital Corpsman in the navy and worked part time in a real
emergency room so I too have seen my share of death.

To see people die is one thing...to hear the screams of their families when
told is quite another. It certaintly changes one's perspective on death.

I have to admit, I did watch that creepy guy Kavorkean kill a guy on
a 60 Minutes episode. I never watched 60 Minutes again nor will I.

The fascination with death is because it is the unknown in most people's lives.

It is not fascinating. Death is always sad.

Well...speaking from the standpoint of someone who lost their father not even two years ago, and who has a close friend who's mother died even more recently...anyone who consideres the real death and suffering of people as 'entertainment' is twisted beyond words.

I was very close with my father, and nothing has ever hit me harder than that in my entire life, and it's not something I consider interesting, funny or fascinating...losing someone that close to me for no real reason is something I never want to experience again, and it's not something I would wish on anybody.

To think there are people out there who not only make, but other who pay to see, movies of people actually being murdered is...disturbing at best...

Because of the shock facter, peolpe love the feeling oh being shocked!
And seeing blood and people being mutalated isnt something we see everyday so its in some way facinating. But the thing is if you see something like that on tv it does shock people in a different sense because i like horror movies BUT ive seen someone ran over when i was young and its a whole different feeling because this guy had almost been ripped apart and blood was everywhere. Its not nice and facinating when its the real thing

death is supposted to be a bad thing all though when it is not the watcher being hurt or his fealings hurt they thrive on it.
i hate death but does any body know anything about asral-projection or sirit visits

I heard of alot of movies of people dying like Death Faces 1-5...I don't know what's so entertaining about watching that stuff. They think they're god and they love to watch other people suffer. Here's a word in advice,don't go to Ogrish.com or any other place that shows people dying. I agree 100% with revengefull death...they probaly watch for facination...I mean,i've seen somebody die infront of my eyes. When I was in the army,I saw someone get executed by getting their head cutoff with a knife...yeah it shocked me a bit, but that's the way of death..

...that's a crazy thing to enjoy seeing someone dying...

I also think it is not a recent phenomenon of our contemporary world, remember the games in the ancient Rome, when Gladiators fighted to death, and the Tournaments in the Middle Ages, or the public executions...is there something in the human kind that sometimes, in particular circumtances, like the need to feel secure, pushes him to see people dying? That's frightening...

To think that there are people so sick and twisted that this kind of stuff doesn't phase them is incomprehensible....just look at some of the stuff they've said about it:

people who show this to their kids should have their kids taken off them, pure and simple, its child abuse!

would they let their children watch porn?

i think not, yet sex is normal, almost everyone does it however almost everyone does not kill people yet they find it entertaining?

y?